About Tibbetts Awards
The Tibbetts Awards Program is proudly named after Roland Tibbetts – the NSF program manager acknowledged as the founder of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. In honor of the SBIR program’s 40th year of powerful economic, technical, and societal impact, the 2022 National Tibbetts Awards are set to take place on July 22, 2022, which marks the anniversary date of when the SBIR program was signed into law – July 22, 1982.